That is what I felt stuck in for 2+ years on our adoption journey.
Some would describe it as a roller coaster but for me I just really felt like I was walking in a circle and had no idea when the spinning would stop.
December of last year, it seemed to be slowing down. You can read about it here.
March 4th, the spinning stopped. You can read about that here.
It is amazing how a journey can feel suffocating. The constant ups and downs for some or the constant feeling on being stuck in a revolving door can be tiring.
If you are in the waiting process of adoption or infertility(as many of my friends are), I am sorry. Waiting for something so desperately hoped for is a special kind of pain.
Once you get to the other side though, once the door stops spinning, you gain clarity.
I was reading something today and I felt the need to pass it on if you feel like you are stuck walking in circles.
Oswald Chambers writes in My Utmost for His Highest:
God gives us a vision and then He takes us down to the valley to batter us in the shape of that vision. It is in the valley that many of us give up and faint. Every God-given vision will become real if we have patience. It is in the valley that God has to put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the point where He can trust us with the reality of the vision. Ever since God gave the vision, He has been at work. Over and over we try to escape from the Sculptor's hand in an effort to batter ourselves into our own shape. Allow the Potter to put you on His wheel and whirl you around as He desires. Don't lose heart, you will turn out as an exact likeness of that vision.
The spinning or revolving is not useless.
It has a purpose.
You have a purpose and your waiting is a result of God wanting His purpose fulfilled in you.
Don't give up. His plan is perfect.
Don't give up. His plan is perfect.
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